Regarding the popular myth that Hitler used gun control to gain power and keep it

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Jan 11, 2013 at 6:10 PM

Just yesterday, I told you HERE about a pro-gun Web site that warns its friends not to use bogus quotations to support their cause.

That same Web site also WARNS AGAINST peddling the utter falsehood that Adolf Hitler used gun control to come to power in Germany and to maintain his grip on that country:

A commonly heard argument against gun control is that the National Socialists of Germany (the Nazis) used it in their ascent to and maintenance of power. A corollary argument is sometimes made that had the Jews (and presumably the other targeted groups) been armed, they ...

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Pat Cunningham

Just yesterday, I told you HERE about a pro-gun Web site that warns its friends not to use bogus quotations to support their cause.

That same Web site also WARNS AGAINST peddling the utter falsehood that Adolf Hitler used gun control to come to power in Germany and to maintain his grip on that country:

A commonly heard argument against gun control is that the National Socialists of Germany (the Nazis) used it in their ascent to and maintenance of power. A corollary argument is sometimes made that had the Jews (and presumably the other targeted groups) been armed, they ...

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